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Did not realize that POSIX after it was obsolete standardized commands ;) anyway. But I get you. PowerShell is intended to harmonize server management and your

• hnlmorg 3y ago
  > Did not realize that POSIX after it was obsolete standardized commands ;) anyway. POSIX does standardise some commands[0], albeit not many and good few of them are implemented as builtins even in Bash. But it also defines STDOUT (etc) files. The way Powershell passes data is as .NET objects. The way Murex passes data is as POSIX byte streams but with type annotations passed out of band. This creates some extra overhead in serialising data but the advantage is that it works with all of your existing tooling without modification. > Do you write articles about how you make coreutils output structured? Is that a command specific adapter or how does that work? I haven't but that's a good idea. The way it works is just that you add type annotations. The default type is assumed text data, potentially in columns, like you'd see from `ps aux` or `ls -l`. There are also some builtins (eg [1][2]) that are data type aware. So if you just use the most basic features of Murex, you get a few footguns removed (eg by default variables containing spaces don't get split into multiple parameters) and a slightly different syntax to Bash but all the same CLI tools work. However if you want to invest more into Murex then you get greater power from it eg the ability to inline SQL queries[3], write unit tests[4], better error handling[5][6], etc as well as being able to do `jq` like expressions against a multitude of object and table formats. I really do need to get better at publishing it's features though! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:POSIX_Utilities.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:POSIX_Utilities.pdf [1] https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/index.html https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/index.html & https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/examples/table-indexes.mx https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/examples/table-in... [2] https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/foreach.html https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/foreach.html [3] https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/examples/inline-sql.mx https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/examples/inline-s... [4] https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/config/defaults/profile_all.mx#L344 https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/config/defaults/p... [5] https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/runmode.html https://murex.rocks/docs/commands/runmode.html [6] https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/examples/try-catch.mx https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/examples/try-catc...